I know heaps of people with
Nguyen (pronounced something like NYOO-wen) as their surname - it's very common here because we have a lot of people here of Vietnamese origin. I've seen it as a first name on boys as well.
It's fine on a Vietnamese person but I would find it a bit strange on anyone else, simply because I've never seen it used outside a Vietnamese context.
This message was edited 5/21/2008, 7:13 AM